Astrid Mannes (born 2 January 1967) is a German author and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has served as a member of the national parliament ("Bundestag") from 2017 to 2021 and again since 2024.
[2][3][4] Astrid Luise Mannes was born into a Protestant family in Hilden, a mid-sized industrial town a short distance to the east of Düsseldorf.
During 1991/92 Mannes worked as a personal assistant to Herbert Czaja who at that time was president (described in at least one source as "the controversial president"[6]) of the Federation of Expellees ("Bund der Vertriebenen"), an organisation originally formed in 1957 to represent the interests of ethnic German victims of the ethnic cleansing east of the Oder–Neisse line during 1944-1950.
Between 2006 and 2008 she served as district chair of the (CDU) Women's Union in Darmstadt-Dieburg, having by this time moved the centre of her operation upriver to the region south of Frankfurt.
In 2007 Mannes put herself forward as a candidate in the mayoral election for Mühltal, a small town in the hills to the south of Darmstadt.